Thursday February 16, 2012

If the new government becomes serious about addressing the problems of dispatch workers on insecure job contracts, at the expense of regular workers' welfare, it might cause friction with Rengo.

Tetsuro Kato, a politics professor at Hitotsubashi University. While the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) represents 6.8 million workers, labor market deregulation has caused the number of dispatch workers in Japan to more than triple to 1.4 million in 2008. (AFP)

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